Posted by Nathan on Sunday, April 13th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Timelapse: Nightscapes from Tom Lowe on Vimeo.
Sometimes our view of the world around us is held back by our own perceptional limitations. When we use technology to work around those limitations a whole different view of our surroundings is opened to us. Check out these timelapse shots of the night sky. Amazing.
Posted by John on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
If we can’t travel to the beginning of time to observe the Big Bang, then we will just have to make our own miniature Big Bang right here on Earth. It may sound a little far-fetched and maybe even a little dangerous. (It’s neither.)
After 10 years of construction and about $8 billion invested in the cause, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has given rise to the Large Hadron Collider. This astounding technological marvel (a ring 27 kilometers in circumference) is constructed for the purpose of recreating conditions that only existed within the first billionth of a second after the Big Bang—unimaginable measures of heat and density—by literally smashing bits of matter together near the speed of light. Recording particles present in this not-since-the-dawn-of-time formation, will give us insight to the very fabric of our universe and further the pursuit of answering arguably the biggest questions human beings have ever set out to answer.
